12,000 Americans got quadrillion charges on their Visa cards

Visa showed up with $23 quadrillion charges. Thus, more than 12,000 people nationwide found the same amount - specifically, $23,148,855,308,184,500 -charged to their cards.

A hefty $23 quadrillion charge showed up as a negative number on the Johns Hopkins University sophomore's Visa Buxx statement earlier this month. Surely, all the money in the world, literally, couldn't effort that bill. The charge was for a single July 12 purchase: a train ticket home from Grand Central Terminal.

Lydia Alcock, 18, the girl suffered from the wrong charge notification, told that, there was s a $1.47 charge and a $20 charge, a $5 charge and then there's a 17-digit number and she immediately got it was some kind of mistake. The bank verified the mistake after it spent a half-hour on hold. This charge was removed very soon, though a $20 negative balance fee remained there a while longer before it.  

Visa accused the eye-popping charges on a temporary programming error that affected more than 12,000 customers nationwide. The problem was fixed quickly. 

Others charged the $23 quadrillion included a 22-year-old New Hampshire man who bought a pack of cigarettes, a Texas man dining at Wolfgang Puck's and a Minnesota woman buying milk and eggs. The others injured also typically faced penalties for the excessive balances.